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    Excerpts from the post of Nina C George, DHNS, Bengaluru, Jan 31 2021, 23:45 IST updated: Feb 01 2021, 03:39 IST     Disclaimer: ALL PHOTOS BY COURTESY, Deccan Herald Bangalore.  India’s helicopter and fighter aircraft display teams are presenting their first-ever joint display at the Aero India show at the Yelahanka Air Force Station, Bengaluru, between Feb. 3 and 5. Sarang, the four-helicopter display team, and Suryakiran, the nine-aircraft aerobatic team, will carry out a combined display for the first time. Said to be the first global aero show to be conducted since the pandemic broke out, Aero India is predominantly a trade fair this year. However, a special attraction is the American B-1BLancer heavy bomber, which will fly by for the first time at the biennial air show.   Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/city/top-bengaluru-stories/dh-exclusive-first-ever-helicopter-and-fighter-jet-...

  Sunil was new to our colony. He was a few years senior to me and so naturally, I looked up to him for teaching me how to be a big boy. He wasn’t a kind one could take as an icon but he was all that was available to me. The bigger reason for getting closer to him, which could mean and unquestioned free access to his home at any time was, his sister. Yes, that was more pressing reason for me to seek his friendship. She had golden streak in her otherwise unkempt hair and now when I look back at the memories of those day, I think, she wasn’t much to look at, but when there are not many to choose from, one can’t be finicky. I would like to get drunk on the thoughts of her beauty or whatever that was. She possessed all the powers to possess me. Uncontrolled like lava flowing from a volcano, all the dirty thoughts which often could be so dirty that feelings of sin would rise in me, needing me to say small prayers for absolution, would flow in my mind. Those thoughts were so powerful t...

Preface: Character बुदम is about me (not fiction). Let me start with why I felt that I was बुदम . While growing up in Chamba, I used to get all kind of punishments in the school like बिच्छू बूटी treatment, मुर्गा आसन , बेंत treatment, standing hands up, etc., etc., When this did not work teachers started calling my little sister Vibha to show that I was in मुर्गा आसन pose. This was the moment I felt something inside that I am not normal, and it was hard for me to understand basic stuff education-wise. I was never asked to look forward to becoming something like a doctor, engineer, govt officer (HAS/IAS/IPS), but the rest of the siblings were being looked at from that perspective that they can become something. Thus, my thinking to feel as बुदम was natural. I was not bothered about it and accepted it as part of my life.   बुदम ’ s siblings loved him and used to had pity without letting him know. बुदम ’ s Hemant Bhai (Big brother) always supported him and never questioned...